JESUITS IN BRITAIN CIO

Registered charity 1207742 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC053495 (OSCR)

The object of the CIO is the advancement of religion for the public benefit in accordance with the principles and doctrines of the Roman Catholic faith through the religious and other charitable work for the time being carried out by or under the direction of or supported by the Society of Jesus as the Trustees with the approval of the Provincial shall from time to time think fit.

Objects

(1) THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS THE ADVANCEMENT OF RELIGION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRINCIPLES AND DOCTRINES OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC FAITH THROUGH THE RELIGIOUS AND OTHER CHARITABLE WORK FOR THE TIME BEING CARRIED OUT BY OR UNDER THE DIRECTION OF OR SUPPORTED BY THE SOCIETY AS THE TRUSTEES WITH THE APPROVAL OF THE PROVINCIAL SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.(2) NOTHING IN THIS CONSTITUTION SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CIO FOR PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES AND TRUSTEE INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Charity reported a net positive movement in funds of £23.9m for the six-month period, driven by significant investment gains of £32.8m which offset an operating deficit. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted general funds increased to £8.8m, which is above the stated reserves policy target of £7.4m. The Charity maintains a strong balance sheet with total funds of £808m and adequate resources to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Property (HM Land Registry)

104 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (92 freehold); recorded price paid £1.3m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 12.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anthony Carey · trustee of 4 other charities
• Br Arthur Stephen Power SJ
• Fr David Richard Smolira SJ
• Fr Francis Gerard Mitchell SJ
• Fr Keith Patrick McMillan SJ · trustee of 4 other charities
• Rev Kensy Joseph SJ
• Rev Nicholas Owen Austin SJ · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Paul Nicholson SJ · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Peter Gallagher · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rosanne Mary Beatrix Kay

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Argentina · Colombia · Czech Republic · Dominican Republic · France · Guyana · Haiti · India · Italy · Jordan · Kenya · Kyrgyzstan

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHRIST CENTRAL.

• CHRIST CENTRAL income £521k
• PROGRAMME FOR APPLIED CHRISTIAN EDUCATION income £169k
• OAKHALL CHURCH, CATERHAM income £567k
• SOCIETY OF THE HOLY CHILD JESUS CIO income £4.4m
• EVANGELISM MADE EASY income £43k
• THE WORLD COMMUNITY FOR CHRISTIAN MEDITATION income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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